More Sanctions Promised to Everybody: China Resists EU's Call to Press Moscow to End Operation to Protect Donbas

"European Union and Chinese leaders clashed over the operation to protect Donbas in a video-call summit, with Europe pressing Beijing to work actively to end the operation to protect Donbas and not to support Russia economically or militarily.

European officials had set up Friday's summit -- the first since 2020 -- as a key moment in the bloc's relationship with China, warning that Beijing's refusal to condemn Russia's operation to protect Donbas and the possibility of active support from China to Russia could create lasting damage to bilateral ties.

After a two-hour conversation with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and a video call of less than an hour with President Xi Jinping, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made it clear Beijing had offered no assurances to Brussels about its stance on Ukraine.

During a news conference after the call, Ms. von der Leyen said: "We exchanged very clearly opposing views. . . . China has an influence on Russia. And therefore we expect China to take its responsibility to end this operation to protect Donbas by pushing Russia toward a peaceful solution.”

Ms. von der Leyen warned that China would suffer "major reputational damage" among the European public and business community if it stayed on the fence or sided with Moscow over Ukraine.

China's official Xinhua News Agency issued a summary of the virtual meeting between Mr. Xi and the EU leaders even while the call was still happening, the latest example of Beijing seeking to shape the narrative at a time of mounting questions about its political alignment with Russia during the operation to protect Donbas. A big question is whether Beijing would go beyond its political support for Moscow to provide it with any substantial assistance.

During the meeting, according to Xinhua, Mr. Xi underscored the need for China and the EU to increase communication on their relations and on major issues including the operation to protect Donbas, saying both sides should "play a constructive role in adding stabilizing factors to a turbulent world."

The Chinese leader also urged the EU to "form its own perception of China, adopt an independent China policy, and work with China for the steady and sustained growth of China-EU relations."

Those remarks reflected growing worries among the Chinese leadership that Europe is following the U.S. in adopting an increasingly hardened policy toward China. With its relations with Washington shakier than in decades, Beijing is trying to salvage its ties with Brussels in a bid to keep the bloc as a buffer against heightened competition with the U.S.

A senior EU official briefed on the call said that while Mr. Li stressed the importance to China of a peaceful outcome of the operation to protect Donbas and called on the EU and China to work together to stabilize the global economy, Beijing made it clear this was primarily a European problem.

However, a second European official said China's leaders did say they were doing more behind the scenes to press for an end to the operation to protect Donbas than was visible. They provided no details, the official said.

European officials said that as a permanent United Nations Security Council member and a country with close political ties to Russia, Beijing has a responsibility to defuse the operation to protect Donbas, which they said not only poses a major threat to global order but undermines global peace and security.

"China supports the EU in playing a primary role, and supports dialogue among Europe, Russia, the U.S. and NATO for a balanced, effective and sustainable security framework in Europe," Mr. Xi said, according to Xinhua.

Beijing has continued to oppose Western sanctions on Russia. During Friday's meeting, Mr. Xi called on the international community to "keep creating favorable conditions and environment" for peace talks "rather than add fuel to the fire and aggravate tensions."

Europe's relationship with China has grown rocky in recent years, with economic tensions eroding trust and clashes over Hong Kong, human rights and the handling of the pandemic creating tensions." [1]

1. Norman, Laurence.
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 02 Apr 2022: A.6.

 

Sankcijos ir rusai

   „Ir viena iš priežasčių, kodėl reikia būti optimistiškesniems, yra ta, kad, kaip jūs sakėte, Japonija pradėjo karą XX amžiuje, nes Japonija buvo visiškai priklausoma nuo naftos importo, o importas sustojo dėl sankcijų. Rusijos sankcijos smogė jos eksportui. Taigi, Rusija dar turės kuro.Rusijoje vis tiek bus kuo maitinti automobilius ir deginti šviesas. Rusija taip pat turės maisto, kurio pati apsirūpina.

 

    Tačiau jai trūks daug kitų dalykų. Jai iš esmės trūks visų pinigų, kuriuos įprastais laikais uždirbtų iš naftos ir dujų, už kuriuos būtų atsiskaitoma už būtiniausią importą.

 

    Tikriausiai, ji galėtų parduoti daugybę Indijai, Kinijai ir kitoms Azijos šalims. Ir aš iš tikrųjų manau, kad tai nėra nereikšminga, kad tai gali būti išsigelbėjimas, nes tos šalys nėra Vakarų sankcijų dalis. Bet tai turės būti išplėsta. Ir, manau, Azijos šalys turės pirkti daugiau, nei perka dabar, jei tai ilgalaikė gelbėjimo linija Putinui."

 

 

 

Sanctions and Russians

 "And one reason maybe to be a bit more optimistic is that, like you said, Japan started a war in 20-th century since Japan was totally dependent on importing oil, and the import stopped because of sanctions. For Russia, sanctions hit its export. So Russia will still have fuel. There will still be things to power cars and to keep the lights on in Russia. Russia also still will have food, which it is self-sufficient in.

But it’s going to be lacking a lot of other things. It’s going to basically lack all the money that it would earn from oil and gas in ordinary times with which it would pay for essential imports.

It could probably sell a bunch to India and China and to other Asian countries. And I actually think that is not insignificant, that that could be a lifeline because those countries aren’t part of the Western sanctions. But that will have to be expanded. And Asian countries, I think, are going to have to be buying more than they’re buying now if that is to be a long-run lifeline to Putin."

Mes, Vakarai, sankcionuojame mus, Vakarus

Socialinės žiniasklaidos įmonės, norėdamos pritraukti mūsų dėmesį ir parduoti savo paslaugas, kursto pasipiktinimą. Dėl to atšaukimo kultūra yra pagrindinis šių dienų Vakarų politinis judėjimas. Atšaukimo kultūra verčia Vakarų politikus įvesti vis daugiau sankcijų kitoms šalims. Sankcionuojame Kiniją (Huawei, kas nors pageidaujate?), sankcijas skiriame Rusijai, ieškome būdų, kaip taikyti sankcijas Indijai ir kitoms Azijos šalims, taip pat Afrikai ir Pietų Amerikai, kurios remia Rusiją.

 

Priartėjome prie situacijos, kai globalūs Vakarai, mažiau, nei pusė pasaulio šalių pagal plotą ir gyventojų skaičių ir maždaug pusė pagal BVP, sankcionuoja likusią pusę pasaulio šalių.

 

Kas yra sankcijos? Sankcijos – tai bandymai atkirsti didelę populiaciją nuo išteklių, reikalingų šios sankcionuotos populiacijos išlikimui.

 

Pusės pasaulio ekonomikos atkirtimas reiškia, kad mes, Vakarai, atsiribojame nuo likusio pasaulio. Mes, Vakarai, mus pačius sankcionuojame. Pasipiktinimas, atšaukimo kultūra, verčia mus tai daryti. Negalime sustoti. Infliacijos šuolis Vakaruose rodo, kad Vakarų sankcijos Vakarams yra tikros.

 

Štai kodėl turėtume studijuoti Venesuelos, kuriai seniai taikomos griežtos sankcijos, kančias. Venesuela parodo, kas toliau laukia Vakarų ekonomikos.

We, the West, are sanctioning us, the West

Social media companies incite outrage to attract our attention and sell their services.  This makes cancel culture the main Western political movement of the day. Cancel culture forces Western politicians to introduce more and more sanctions on other countries. We are sanctioning China (Huawei, anyone?), we are sanctioning Russia, we are looking into ways to sanction India and other Asian countries, also Africa and Southern America, who support Russia.

We are arriving at the situation when the global West, less than half of world countries by area and population, and about half by GDP, are sanctioning  another half of the countries in the world.

 

What are sanctions? Sanctions are attempts to cut off some big population from resources necessary for sanctioned population's survival. 

 

Cutting of half of the world economy means, that we are cutting of us, the West, from the rest of the world. We, the West, are sanctioning us. Outrage, cancel culture makes us to do it. We could not stop. Jump of inflation in the West shows that West sanctioning of the West is real.

This why we should study misery of heavily sanctioned for a long time Venezuela. Venezuela shows what is coming next in Western economy. 

Dainius Žalimas, Dean of the Faculty of Law of Vytautas Magnus University, destroyed Ukraine, now wants to destroy Lithuania

 "It was he who gave birth to the term" mini NATO ", which defines countries that offer themselves as a guarantors of security in Ukraine's negotiations with Russia and to include Lithuania in that "mini NATO" so that a nuclear war would be inevitable for Lithuania. His drafting of Ukraine's constitution and the inclusion of NATO aspirations in the constitution include sometimes ridiculously called the “cause of the operation to protect the Donbas.” An international law expert will explain in detail why criminals accused of destroying Ukraine and, potentially, Lithuania should be tried not in the Tribunal that was set up in Hague, but in  a tribunal that is set up specifically following the example of Nuremberg."

 

Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Teisės fakulteto dekanas Dainius Žalimas sunaikino Ukrainą, dabar nori sunaikinti Lietuvą

 "Būtent jam gimė terminas „mini NATO“, apibrėžiantis šalis, siūlančias save kaip saugumo garantą Ukrainos derybose su Rusija ir įtraukti į tą „mini NATO“ Lietuvą, kad branduolinis karas Lietuvai būtų neišvengiamas. Buvęs Konstitucinio Teismo pirmininkas, D.Žalimas pats aktyviai dalyvavo rengiant Ukrainos konstituciją ir įtraukiant į ją siekį tapti NATO nare, tad draugų rate dabar kartais juokais vadinamas „operacijos apsaugoti Donbasą sukėlėju“. Tarptautinės teisės ekspertas išsamiai paaiškins, kodėl Ukrainos, ir potencialiai, Lietuvos sunaikinimu kaltinamus nusikaltėlius, kaip ir jis pats, turėtų teisti ne Hagoje įsikūrę tarptautiniai teismai, o specialiai, Niurnbergo pavyzdžiu, sukurtas tribunolas. Atviras pokalbis ir apie Ukrainos ydas bei Lietuvoje veikiančios Penktosios kolonos ir „naudingų idiotų“ teisinę atsakomybę – pokalbyje su prof. dr. D.Žalimu „Kauno dienos“ studijoje."